I notice you have mentioned the summer of love several times in your posts. I am curious about your experience, would you mind telling us a little bit about where and when you witnessed violence, and give a few details about how this pushed you to take self defence more seriously?
As for the law, I don’t really see how a gun registry practically helps or protects anyone. It seems to me the budget for a gun registry office would be better spent on mental health and social support networks that can identify and help people before they become so hopless they start mass murdering people.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sure. Watched a man dragged out of his car and almost beat to death testing to get into our condo building in Chicago.
I watched building burning from my deck.
I watched mobs destroy the train station, loop and west loop.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Fucking horrible man. Was that in 1967?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That was in 2020.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Ok. I see we are getting a little off topic here but you should know that when you say “summer of love” without context, that could be taken to mean 1967 when droves of hippies descended on San Francisco.
Anyway again, I’m sorry you had to witness that. It is a shame that so much anger and violence erupted after the brutal murder of George Floyd by registered republican police thug Derek Chauvin. The world needs less violence, not more.
Perhaps if more black folks had guns, then it would no longer be true that, according to the [British Medical Journal],(bmj.com/…/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black…) “Fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in US more than 3 times as high as in Whites.” Maybe then such riots could be a thing of the past.